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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Fifteen-month ATF led multi-agency investigation resulted in
the seizure of drugs, cash and firearms

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Four men arrested in June 2013 as the
result of a sweeping fifteen-month joint federal, state and local law
enforcement investigation resulting in the seizure of more than 137 grams of
heroin, 392 grams of crack cocaine, 235 grams of cocaine powder, 47 grams and
100 pills of the synthetic drug "Molly," 100 Ecstasy pills and six
firearms, including a machine gun, have been sentenced to federal prison,
announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha.

The investigation initiated in March 2012 by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and investigated jointly with DEA,
with the assistance of agents and officers from the FBI, Homeland Security
Investigations, United States Marshals Service, Rhode Island State Police and
Cranston, Pawtucket, Providence, and Warwick Police Departments, determined
that the drug trafficking conspiracy was responsible for a significant quantity
of drugs being trafficked to other drug dealers and to drug users.

Salee Yang, 30, of Pawtucket, the primary target of the
investigation, was sentenced in March to 120 months in federal prison; Eric
Negron, 49, of Pawtucket, who admitted to being a primary supplier of heroin,
cocaine and crack cocaine to Yang, was sentenced in April to 184 months in
federal prison; Stanz Hun, 26, of Cranston, a member of the 4/5th Mafia and PSB
street gangs who admitted to being a customer of Yang and admitted to operating
his own drug trafficking business, was sentenced today to 84 months in federal
prison; and Peter Lietar, 37, of Pawtucket, who admitted to supplying Ecstasy
and "Molly" to Yang, was sentenced in March to 24 months in federal
prison and ordered to pay a fine of $30,000. At the time of his arrest, agents
discovered a marijuana grow in Lietar’s home larger than he was permitted as a
State of Rhode Island authorized medical marijuana caregiver card holder.

"Drug trafficking, illegal guns and gang activity are a
1 – 2 – 3 recipe for urban violence, often with disastrous results," said
United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha. "The long sentences received by
these men are well-deserved, and will contribute to making our urban
neighborhoods safer. Yet, obviously, the work must continue, and I am grateful
to our federal, state and local law enforcement partners for our continuing,
ongoing, coordinated efforts to confront violence in urban neighborhoods."

The cases were prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Gerard
B. Sullivan.

This case was brought as part of the Rhode Island Urban
Violent Crime Initiative. The Rhode Island Urban Violent Crime Initiative is a
local, state and federal law enforcement collaboration to proactively identify,
investigate and prosecute individuals responsible for crimes of violence in
urban neighborhoods.